Transparency has been a big focus for Governor Rick Scott’s administration, but Regan McCarthy reports now he and Florida’s Senate leaders are coming under fire for failing to make a budget website aimed at increasing budget transparency available to the public.
A man who spent twenty-seven years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit appeared before Florida’s governor and cabinet this week. Tom Flanigan reports William Michael Dillon wants his experience to serve as an example of how the criminal justice system can make terrible mistakes…
Recent findings by the University of South Florida show there is nearly double the amount of graves found in the now-closed Dozier School for Boys than previously reported by the state years ago.
As Sascha Cordner reports, alleged victims of abuse at the Marianna reform school say an outside source, like the U.S. Justice Department, would be better suited to uncovering the truth than state investigators.
The level of scrutiny Florida A&M University has been under for the past year ratcheted up another notch this week when the school was slapped with a probation sanction. Lynn Hatter reports university officials say they expected a sanction from their accrediting body, but the extent of the punishment came as a surprise.
Central Florida’s Silver Springs attraction could soon become a state park. A public forum on the topic attracted hundreds of people this week. But, as Jessica Palombo reports, there’s plenty of disagreement on who should clean it and what should happen next.